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[Charles Frees-Melvin]

You would need a VPN type solution to accomplish that type of situation.

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Charles E. Frees-Melvin
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On 2010-12-17, at 8:37, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Ankur Oberoi <aoberoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Okay, let's say your production site is live.example.com and your
>>> staging site is stage.example.com.
>>> 
>>> On your staging site, you set it up to think it's the live site, with
>>> the live URL. This is to make it identical in content and database and
>>> such with the live site.
>>> 
>>> Then, in some file that is not going to the live site (wp-config, any
>>> plugin, etc), you'd do something sorta like this:
>>> 
>>> ob_start('my_callback');
>>> function my_callback($out) {
>>>   return str_replace('live.example.com', 'stage.example.com', $out);
>>> }
>>> 
>>> Output buffering. It's easy.
>>> http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php
>> 
>> I just got around to trying this out. At first I thought this was perfect and I took ur advice on modifying the hosts file to point to my own machine for the live URL. Then I tried to access wp-admin and I have an issue, maybe you've dealt with this so you can help me out.
>> 
>> I (will) have a staging server at 'stage.example.com' and the site lives at 'example.com', so I set my output buffering callback function like this:
>> 
>> function my_callback($out) {
>>        str_replace('example.com', 'stage.example.com', $out);
>>        return str_replace('http://example.com', 'http://stage.example.com', $out);
>> }
>> 
>> I am trying to be extra cautious about the url, although i don't like the fact that if anywhere in my content i talk about example.com it will automatically be changed to stage.example.com, but in this case that won't happen so lets just ignore that.
>> 
>> on my staging machine I added a line to /etc/hosts:
>> 
>> 127.0.0.1 stage.example.com
>> 
>> the machine also has a vhost running whose ServerName (apache specfic i guess) is set to stage.example.com and points to the directory in which the site lives.
>> 
>> I am pretty sure I did all the steps right, but what would it take for my client to be able to visit stage.example.com/wp-admin in order to see the admin section as usual?
> 
> If you want your client to see the staging site, then the staging site
> has to be somewhere that they can see it. This means that if you're
> running it on the local machine, then that ain't going to work.
> 
> I was kind of assuming that stage.example.com was a live site
> somewhere on the internet. If you're developing locally, then no magic
> in the world will put the local install on the live internet... short
> of actually putting the machine on the live internet as a server with
> a domain name pointing to it.
> 
> -Otto
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